Okay, having read that I and me shit, I would have to say that you gentlemen were in a total nuthouse...however...I think Roloff's should at LEAST get an honorable mention for the most culty due to their firm beliefs in separation from family, (a visit at six months, monitored telephone conversations and mail to and FROM the parents). You got workshops, we got Bible studies, church services, devotions...reprogramming, mind control, brainwashing. You got journals, we got notebooks to write scriptures over and over and over and over. And over. No television, no radio except for Lester's sermons...windows with alarms, fences with barbwire...
Saw somewhere along the way that someone wanted to know who Roloff worked for...none other than himself, I say. Once he died, he BECAME the golden calf, baby. While based on Christianity and fundamentalist values, the eager followers quickly elevated the deceased Roloff to sainthood, nay, godhood. Alas, he was but a man after all, and less godlike, more worm food like.